'Better team by width of the Bigg Market' - National Media react as Newcastle sweep Arsenal aside

A look at the latest national media round-up after Newcastle's win over Arsenal.

Luke Edwards of the Telegraph said: "Arsenal arrived in Newcastle needing a win to keep Champions League qualification in their own hands. The left like a team heading back into the Europa League with a manager who could not seem to know how or why the capitulation had occurred.

"Mikel Arteta looked like a man who had just seen a car crash. Ashen faced, hollow eyed, a mixture of stress, anger and disappointment.

"He had the stare of a man who could not quite comprehend what he had just seen. Arsenal had not just been beaten in a game they had to win to move back above their bitter rivals Tottenham Hotspur. They were outplayed, roughed up, out-passed and outclassed.

"They completely and utterly, no excuses, no mitigating circumstances, deserved to lose a game where their ability, but also their mental strength, fell short.

"They walked into a wall of noise when they emerged from the tunnel at St James’ Park, were rocked back onto their heels and could not get on to the front foot all evening. In the first half they just about hung on, somehow repelling wave after wave of Newcastle attacks, but in the second they were blown apart after Ben White’s own goal.

"The home side should have scored another three or four, they were that dominant. Instead, they had to make do with a second from their new star, Bruno Guimaraes. The Brazil international, who chose to sign for Newcastle instead of Arsenal, in January, was the best player on the pitch.

"It all helps to create a picture of a club in black and white that is the rising power in English football and one in red and white stuck where it has been for most of the last 15 years."

Nick Ames of the